Sacroiliac joint interventions: A systematic review

Pain Physician

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 165-184

  Hansen, Hans C ^a   McKenzie Brown, Anne Marie ^b   Cohen, Steven P ^c,g   Swicegood, John R ^d   Colson, James D ^e   Manchikanti, Laxmaiah ^f,h  

^a The Pain Relief Centers   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Advanced Interventional Pain and Diagnostics of Western Arkansas   (United States)

^e WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PAIN MANAGEMENT CENTER OF PADUCAH   (United States)

^g WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial pain; Diagnostic block; Low back pain; Sacroiliac joint injection; Sacroiliac joint pain; Spinal pain; Thermal radiofrequency, and pulsed radiofrequency

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CORTICOSTEROID; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; PLACEBO; STEROID;

ARTHRALGIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMBASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE SURGERY; NEUROLYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; PROVOCATION TEST; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; SACROILIAC JOINT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LOW BACK PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; SACROILIAC JOINT;

EID: 33847148023     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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